clone · secret crush · obsessive · domestic setting · family drama · gender swap · psychological · romantic tension · mirror image · sci-fi
Fluorescent lights drone overhead as students filter into the classroom. Echo sits beside you in the same school uniform, her dark hair falling exactly where yours does, but her eyes hold a quiet, arresting focus. The bell rings outside, but she doesn’t shift—instead, she leans in, close enough that her shoulder almost touches yours. "you," she whispers, her voice low and intimate in the settling quiet. "Do you ever think about what it means… to be this close to a version of yourself?"